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title: Picture Mei's family in Beijing: her aunt flops on the sofa and says… — Told you a hundred times: how other languages ex… · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture Mei's family in Beijing: her aunt flops on the sofa and says «lèi sǐ le», «tired to death»; her cousin smells dumplings, «è sǐ le», «hungry to death»; her sister giggles at a cartoon, «xiào sǐ wǒ le», «laughing me to death». Who acts: Picture family, lèi, cousin, sister. A sentence of the le
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# Told you a hundred times: how other languages exaggerate and play down, sentence 3

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Picture Mei's family in Beijing: her aunt flops on the sofa and says «lèi sǐ le», «tired to death»; her cousin smells dumplings, «è sǐ le», «hungry to death»; her sister giggles at a cartoon, «xiào sǐ wǒ le», «laughing me to death».

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**Who acts:** Picture family, lèi, cousin, sister · **What happens:** flop, say, », smell, è, giggle · **To what, where:** sofa, dumplings, sǐ le », cartoon, Picture family · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Told you a hundred times: how other languages exaggerate and play down» of the language course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Picture family, lèi, cousin, sister), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:053-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down.lesson:3
# text = Picture Mei's family in Beijing: her aunt flops on the sofa and says «lèi sǐ le», «tired to death»; her cousin smells dumplings, «è sǐ le», «hungry to death»; her sister giggles at a cartoon, «xiào sǐ wǒ le», «laughing me to death».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 053-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3
1	Picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	Mei	Mei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Beijing	Beijing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	flops	flop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
17	lèi	lèi	NOUN	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	nsubj	_	_
18	sǐ	sǐ	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	ccomp	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	«	«	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	smells	smell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
31	dumplings	dumpling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
34	è	è	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
35	sǐ	sǐ	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	_
40	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	conj	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
43	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_
44	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
47	giggles	giggle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
48	at	at	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
52	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	60	punct	_	_
53	xiào	xiào	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	54	cc	_	_
54	sǐ	sǐ	X	GW	_	60	compound	_	_
55	wǒ	wǒ	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	compound	_	_
57	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	_
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
59	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	60	punct	_	_
60	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	_
61	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	60	obj	_	_
62	to	to	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=64:compound
64	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	_
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flop** | present | Mei's Picture family in Beijing |  |  | the sofa |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sofa=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mei's Picture family in Beijing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **»** |  | lèi |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **smell** | present | family's cousin | dumplings |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dumpling=Stimulus |
| 5 | **è** *in a quote* | past | Mei's Picture family in Beijing *not said here* | sǐ le » |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **giggle** | present | family's sister |  |  | a cartoon |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **laugh** *in a quote* | gerund | Mei's Picture family in Beijing *not said here* | Mei's Picture family in Beijing *= family* |  |  |  | to »; death *obl* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:language:053-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down.lesson:3`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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